Combined planter and fertilizer-distributer.



Nu. 632,09. Patented Aug. 29, I899. c. M. FLOYD.

COMBINED PLANTER AND FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER.

(Application filed June 5, 1899.!

(No Model.)

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COMBINED PLANTER AND FERTILIZER-DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 632,17 9, dated August29, 1899.

Application filed June 5, 1899. Serial No. 719,458. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern;

Be it known that I, CHARLES M. FLOYD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Auburn, in the county of Lee and State of Alabama, haveinvented new and useful Im provements in a Combined Planter andFertilizer- Distributer, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in combined planters andfertilizer-distributers; and it consists in the construction andarrangement ofparts, which will be fully described hereinafter andparticularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of aplanter and fertilizerdistributer embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal vertical sectional view taken on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3is a similar view taken on line 3 of Fig. 1, looking in the directionindicated by arrow. Fig. 4- is a detached view of the fertilizer-stirrerwheel. Fig. 5 is a detached view of the adjustable plate U.

Referring now to the drawings, A indicates a beam which passes through ahopper B. This hopper is divided vertically by a partition 0, whichprovides a seed-compartment D and a fertilizer-compartment E. Passingthrough the lower end of the hopper and journaled therein below the beamA is a feedershaft F, this feeder-shaft carrying at one or, ifpreferred, at both ends a disk G, provided with radially-projecting armsH, which serve to rotate the feed-shaft by coming in contact with theground as the machine is drawn along.

Secured to the feed-shaft F is a feed-disk I, provided with a pluralityof openings J in the periphery thereof, and this wheel serves to close aportion of the bottom of the coinpartment E. Situated at a point infront of the axes of this feed-disk is aboard K, which serves also as apart of the bottom of the compartment E, and this board is situated at apoint above and out of contact with the feeddisk. Secured to the underside of the board K is a brushL, adapted to engage the periphery orfeeding-face of the disk, the object of which is to brush off all of theseeds which are not contained within the feed'cavities of the disk, andthus serve to feed only that amount of seed which is contained in thecavities, as is well understood by those skilled in the art.

Journaled within the upper end of the hopper and passing through thedivision-board C thereof is a shaft M, which is provided within thecompartment E with a disk N, pro vid ed with radial arms P, and passingthrough each of these radial arms are the stirring and actuating rods Q.

The bottom of the fertilizer-distributer compartment E is closed by aplate R, having a slot through which the radial arms S of a wheel T,carried by the feed-shaft F, slightly project. This feed-wheel serves tofeed the fertilizer through the said slit in the plate at the bottom ofthe compartment, and the size of this slit is regulated by means of a U-shaped adjustable plate U, havingin the end thereof the slots U,through which. the clampingscrews V pass. By means of this arrangementthe amount of fertilizer being fed ca be readily and easily regulated.

In operation as the machine is drawn along the feed-shaft is rotated, asbefore explained, and the stirrer-shaft is revolved by means of the armsH upon the feed-shaft, which engage one end of the pins Q, which passthrough the arms of the disk N. This arrangement enables the pins toserve the donble function of cog-pins and also as stirrers, and the armsto which the pins are attached also serve as stirrers and not only stirand agitate the fertilizer, but serve to force it down into the lowerend of the hopper to be fed out by the feed-disk.

Secured to the beamAat their forward ends are the cultivator or coveringbeams 61., which carry at their rear ends the covering blades or plowsb, and secured to the beam Ain front of the hopper is a plow oropener-stock c, to which an opener d is secured in any suitable manner.In practice this opener will form a furrow into which the seed andfertilizer are dropped, and the covering-blades I) serve to cover boththe seed and the fertilizer, as is usual in planting-machines.

A fertilizer-stirrer of the construction herein shown and described issimple and yet very effective, the feed-disk serving the double functionof feeding and stirring and the transverse pins in the arms of thestirrer-disk serving the double function of cog-pins and of stirrers.

Thus far I have described my invention as being adapted for a combinedfertilizer-distribnter and planter; but I do not limit myself to thisparticular use of the invention. For instance, the division-board can beremoved and the openings in the feed-wheel filled up with rubberstoppers A, which will prevent the wheel from feeding. In this conditionthe invention is adapted to be used for planting cotton-seed anddrilling oats and wheat. The wheel which acts as a fertilizerdistributerwill in this event serve to feed through the cottonseed, wheat, or oats,as the case may be. The invention is therefore adapted for feedingsmooth seed and sim ultaneously distributing fertilizer from oppositesides or compartments, and it is also adapted for drilling wheat,cotton-seed, and oats, and in this event the division-board may beremoved or not, according to the quantity of seed it is desired to havethe machine contain.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. A combined planter and fertilizer-distributer comprising a hopperhaving two vertical compartments, a transverse drivingshaft passingthrough the lower ends of said compartments, said shaft having afeed-wheel at the bottom of the seed-compartment, a fertilizer-feedwheel situated wholly within the fertilizer compartment, the fertilizercompartment having a longitudinal feeding-slot in the bottom thereof, afertilizer-stirrer j ournaled above the said fertilizer-feed wheel, thestirrer and feed-wheel provided with radial arms, the lower side of thefeed-wheel passing through the said feeding-slot and the upper side ofthe feed-wheel engaging the arm of the said stirrer, whereby the lowerside of the feed-wheel feeds the fertilizer and the upper side operatesthe stirrer thereabove, substantially as described.

2. A combined fertilizer-distributer and planter comprising a hopperdivided into two vertical compartments, one forming a seedcompartmentand the other a fertilizer-compartment, a feed-shaft passing through thehopper at the lower end of the said compartments, a seed-feedin g diskcarried by the shaft in the seed-compartment, a fertilizer-feeding diskcarried by said shaft in the lower end of the fertilizer-compartment,said feedingwheel provided with radially-proj ectin g arms, serving as acog-wheel and as feeding-arms, and a fertilizer-stirrer situated in theupper portion of the fertilizer-compartment, said stirrer comprising arotating member having radially-extending arms, the radially-extendingarms provided with laterally-extending pins projecting transverse thehopper and forming cogs with which the fertilizer-feedwheel armsengage,substantially as described.

3. A combined fertilizer and planter comprising a hopper divided intovertical compartments, one for seed and the other for fertilizer, afeed-shaft passing through the lower end of the compartments andprovided with a projecting end carrying radial arms adapted to engagethe ground for rotating the shaft, a seed-disk carried by the shaftwithin the lower end of said compartment, a fertilizerfeeding wheelcarried by said shaft in the lower end of the fertilizer-compartment,said feed-Wheel having radially-projecting arms, thefertilizer-compartment having its bottom provided with a feeding-slotinto which the lower side of said arm projects, and a stirrerwheeljournaled in the upper portion of the fertilizer-com partment at a pointintermediate the side thereof, and having laterally-extending armsprojecting from opposite sides thereof and transverse the saidcompartment, the arms of the fertilizer-feed wheel engaging with thesaid transversely-extending pins of the stirrer, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

CHARLES M. FLOYD.

Witnesses:

J. T. CRAWFORD, W. P. ZUBER.

